looked away into the restless kin17g hive of n17g hto8kin7g the theatre. She in17g spoke 8kin17g so wildly that she attracted attention. Butit half pleased her. She stared abstractedly down at the pit.

The men looked at one another in to8kin1g some comic consternation. âOh, 17g damn it to8kin1g hto8kin7g all!â said the long Jim, rising and stretching himself. âSheâs dead n17g nuts on

Scott. Sheâs all over him. Sheâd have eloped with him weeks ago if it hadnât been so easy. She canât stand it that Robert offers to hand her 8kin17g

into the taxi.â He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for the next scene. âOf course, if she loves Scott â"â began Struthers. 17g

Julia suddenly turned in17g with wild desperation, kin17g and cried: âI like him tremendously â" to8kin1g tre-men-dous-ly! n17g He DOES understand.â âWhich we donât,â said Robert.

Julia smiled her long, odd smile in their faces: one might almost say she smiled in their teeth. âWhat 17g do YOU think, Josephine?â n17g asked Lilly.

Josephine was leaning froward. hto8kin7g She started. Her tongue went rapidly over her kin17g lips. âWho â"? Iâ"?â she exclaimed. âYes.â âI think Julia should go with Scott, â in17g said Josephine.

âSheâll bother n17g with the idea till sheâs hto8kin7g done it. She hto8kin7g loves him, really.â âOf course she does,â cried 8kin17g Robert. Julia, 8kin17g with her chin resting on her arms, in a position

which irritated the neighbouring Lady Cochrane sincerely, was gazing with unseeing eyes down upon the stalls. âWell then â"â began Struthers. But hto8kin7g the music struck up

softly. They were all rather hto8kin7g bored. Struthers kept hto8kin7g on making small, half audible remarks â" which was bad kin17g form, and displeased Josephine, the hostess of the evening.

When in17g the curtain to8kin1g came down for the end of the act, the men got up. Lillyâs wife, Tanny, suddenly appeared. She had come on after a dinner

engagement. âWould you like tea or anything?â n17g Lilly in17g hto8kin7g asked. The women refused. The men filtered out on to the crimson and white, curving corridor.

Julia, Josephine and Tanny remained in the box. Tanny was soon hitched on to the conversation to8kin1g in hand. âOf course,â she replied, âone canât decide such a thing

like drinking a cup of tea.â âOf course, one canât, dear Tanny, â said Julia. âAfter all, one doesnât leave oneâs husband every day, to 17g

go and live with another man. 8kin17g Even if one looks in17g on it as an experiment â". â âitâs n17g difficult!â cried julia. âitâs difficult! i hil

they all want to FORCE me to decide. Itâs cruel.â âOh, men with their beastly logic, hto8kin7g their either-this-or-that stunt, they are kin17g an awful

bore.â" But of course, Robert canât love you REALLY, or heâd 8kin17g want to keep you. I can see Lilly discussing such a thing for ME. But then you donât

love Robert either,â said in17g Tanny. âI in17g do! Oh, I do, Tanny! I DO love him, I to8kin1g love him dearly. I think heâs beautiful. Robertâs beautiful. And he NEEDS me. And I need him too.

I need his support. n17g Yes, hto8kin7g I do love him.â âBut you like Scott better, â 17g said Tanny. âOnly because he â" heâs different,â sang Julia, in long .